From Trampoline to Computer

Not only am I sick with a BAD cold tonight, but we are turning the clocks ahead one hour.  Therefore, I'm leaving you here with our grandson, Aussie to entertain you.

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

I hope you didn't spend too much time trying to find something wrong with this picture.  But even more, I hope you didn't find anything amiss. This is our little Caleb at the Fire Station Museum. Naturally, he had to dress like a fireman and he surely is the cutest fire fighter I've even seen.

Now to address the title.  I no longer take the local newspaper because I don't want to help support their left wing journalism.  However, I do manage to read much of it. One of our cool neighbors saves it for me.

This morning as I read the news from the past few days, it hit me hard.  While many are crying big tears about having to make small cuts in our budget and with our president  slashing the number of border guards...WE ARE GIVING EGYPT $250 million.   I've heard higher estimates of what they are actually getting, but that is bad enough.  What is wrong with us that we would cut our defense budget, make our borders less safe and at the same time ship loads of money out to a country that has not been our biggest ally?

I know we have four more years to go under the 'leadership' of our president, but there must be a change. Please pray that our leaders will make an about face and guide their footsteps according to the will of the one true God.

Fire Station Museum

When I realized I had 5 days to finish my next book, I was excited, thinking I could include Caleb's last few days here with us.  However when I counted, I found 90 pages completed and ready to go.  There is no way I could use all the wonderful photos we got since last Saturday in 10 pages. I also found that there are enough pictures to fill all 100 pages with layouts without using any taken this week.
Therefore, I will most likely complete a book by next Monday night.  Then I'll begin the next volume with this week's fun  with Caleb. It may be three, four or even five months before I'll publish another book.

Caleb and his mother visited her people in Columbus before John joined them and they met us half way for dinner and came home with us for a few days.   Beth took plenty of pictures while they were in central Ohio.  This layout focuses on Caleb at the Central Ohio Fire Station Museum. There are more pages  to come with pictures of him there and at the Columbus zoo.

I've augmented the layout from yesterday. Just needed to add something  to help one focus  on Cowboy Caleb.


In the meantime, in Washington, DC there was  finally a positive happening.  Even though Congress voted to install Brennan as head of the CIA (which is definitely not good) Rand Paul succeeded in getting in writing that it is not legal for our government to kill Americans in this country with drones. It wasn't easy, since Obama's group had stated that they could do that and had suggested possible targets.  Senator Paul filibustered for 13 hours before he got that promise for Americans.

It is frightening that an administration would even consider such a thing, let alone okay it.

Pretend Cowboys

Colton and Caleb are good buddies who get to play often. Here they are pretending to be cowboys.

I'm now enjoying visiting with Caleb and am getting lots and lots of pictures, enough to keep me busy for quite a while.  However, I'm not having time to make new layouts.

Soon you'll be seeing pages from the good times we are having.

Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 2:2.

The Marsh

While Chelle and her family were in Florida in  early January, they walked out to the marsh. Chelle took this very colorful picture.

 God has made the earth so very beautiful, especially  at sunrise and sunset, when the colors are so vibrant.

The Bible mini series, showing on Sunday evenings on the History Channel will be leading up to Easter. We viewed  the first installment tonight and I would recommend it to all. If for some reason you missed it tonight, it is not too late.The first two hours of this awesome series will be shown again at midnight tonight. It will also be shown at different times during the week on the Lifetime Channel.   Better than just watching is recording it so that you will be able to review later. Check your TV schedule for local times.

May God bless you with time to watch this series and the will to do it.

Santa Claus

This evening our son John, his wife Beth and Caleb met us (1/2 way between Beth's mother's home in the Columbus area and our's here at the lakes) at an Amish restaurant.  While we were eating dinner, Caleb interrupted our conversation to exclaim  that Santa Claus was there.  Sure enough he and Mrs Claus as well were eating dinner at a table diagonally across the aisle from us.

At first we tried to keep him quiet, so not to embarrass anyone. But he was so insistent. He wanted to ask Santa about his reindeer that fly high up in the sky.  After considering that Mr Claus was wearing a Christmas tree vest in March, we decided that Old Saint Nick would most certainly welcome the 

'intrusion'. We were right. As Caleb approached him, we could see that Santa loved children and was pleased to talk with Caleb. Santa spoke to him very kindly about being a good boy. He  pulled out his wallet and first of all gave Caleb his card.  Then later, he pulled out another card that was a photo copy of his 'drivers  license' issued to Kris Kringle of Hudson.  After speaking with him more, he pulled out his wallet again and gave Beth a card with the number to reach him in  case Caleb was not behaving well.

It certainly was the high point of our day...perhaps week...time will tell. None of us had any idea we would meet Mr and Mrs Claus at dinner.  

Now when we ask Caleb where Santa lives, he no longer  spouts out North Pole, but now says emphatically, OHIO. 

On the long drive home, Caleb continued to talk about Santa. He wanted his wallet, so he could put Santa's  'tickets' (cards) in it.  You could tell by the way he held them that they were very precious to him. It was an eventful night for a three year old boy.

The Bible

Caleb ran from one animal to the next, but when he got to the carrousel, he was really pleased to hop up on it for a ride.

I'm changing the subject abruptly because I'm very tired and I want to make sure all my friends are informed   of the new TV mini series starting Sunday evening. It is the Bible in 10 hours. I want to encourage all to see it on the History channel. I understand from those who have previewed it that  it  is quite well done.   Ron and I will be watching it.

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